Medellin Reports

Ricker.

Good questions. I think I heard about Colombia Jake here first or on another forum and then probably googled him as until recently I did not have access to PM on here. Can't swear 100% that was it, but think that's how I found him. Stephanie probably does lack the passion of a true GFE experience. Hard for me to judge what a "Mansion girl is (or was?) like since I'm not staying there. Did not realize I spelled Colombia wrong. My apologies that really shouldn't happen. My only excuse is it was late.

Cheers.

[QUOTE=Ricker; 1132207]Well though I'm not fat or bald (wheeeeeew) , my neutrons never have fired quite as they should.

Oh, and really, I just don't want to make it at home anymore, and am thankful that I don't have too.

I did enjoy your post on your casa visits, thank you for that.

Nice posts.

Reminded me of meeting your first girl Stephanie at NL, on her first day on the job a little while back, a really nice girl like you said. I even took her out a few times.

She also tried it as a Mansion girl, however, though sweet, she just lacks the passion and desire to give GFE to most.

Really wasn't trying to pick on the new guy, I was just crackin up as to things have changed mucho in Medellin over the past several years, from maps to guided tours, etc.

Hey, it was inevitable I guess.

I was even sad years back when the Mansion first opened it doors, just because I knew it would kick start the invasion.

It's all good though. Just like Frank on the Mayorista, Aussie and the boys in the Mansion, the GF for a Week guy (before his recent misfortune) , the VIP guy, and now Jake, etc.

If the market calls for these services, more power to 'them.

By the way, not dissin' you, but it's ColOmbia.

Disculpame for offending you and let's keep the fingers crossed that I never get fat or bald, (no offense to those dudes either BTW)

Taker easy amigo. [/QUOTE]

Question to the experienced Colombia mongers? Why hasn't anyone opened a large disco tech where all the girls there would be prostitutes like they have in Sao Paulo and had in Rio. With all the drug money out there, I would think it's a no-brainer.

[QUOTE=Hioctane;1132264]Not true from my experience either. Called at 12am and said I would be there in an hour with a description of what I liked. I get there an hour later and there were only 2 chicas on premises. I asked what about happened to the chicas? She said she will call them. WTF? Of course these two were not my type and they sat with me and tried to get me to take them. An hour later, she says the girls are sleeping and don't want to come. WTF? She says to come back at 8pm tomorrow and she will have a dozen for me. Whatever. Never got a chance to go back. There is no way this can be a 24/7 operation. I don't believe girls will wake up at 2am to go there.[/QUOTE]Yep. Pretty much my experience also the 3 times I've showed up there. My first visit there were 4 girls working at 4pm, only 1 I would do, she said more would be showing up at 10-11pm, so I left and continued my walk around centro. I stopped in another visit around 10pm one night and rang the bell for a while with no answer. My trip last July I stopped by late around 1 am, the mamasan finally answered the door and told me no girls were there but she could call some in. I was looking to score something soon and not try my luck at what might drag up at that hour, so again I left.

I kept trying this place because I heard it was a 24hr operation and would have a good selection. I just never saw it

[QUOTE=Hioctane;1132274]... It is NOT recommended that a newbie pull up google maps and start looking on his own. You don't want to get lost etc. Also, it is different from some countries in that there are no signs outside the building saying "casa". You need someone to show you at least once how to read the street addresses and what to do when you get inside ...[/QUOTE]Now that's funny!!

Are Kindergarteners running to el Centro now to the casas??

Someone has to show guys how to read street addresses because there's not a blinking light that says "casa"??

What to do when you get inside??

It's not obvious??

Do you thinks there were always Google maps and Colombia Jake around to save us?

How did we make our way before all this?

If guys want to pay Colombia Jake or whoever to show them how to read street signs and addresses and how to act once in a casa, that's just dandy and I'm thrilled for Jake, but I can't help it, I think it's funny and maybe sad at the same time.

There's one thing for sure, the gringos have definitely landed in Medellin :)

Boyd at casa blanca offer free tours included in price of room, Colombia Jake does tours, Medellin Piasa offers tours on the more outdoors nature type, Laura at [url]www.pobladorentals.com[/url] Is available for outings and translations, Frank Casio will be your wingman for a price, I think goodtogo offers rooms and intro services if you ask him nicely, I find it amusing that folks want to make fun of someone that offers a service that another may percieve as having having value, It may have no value for the well seasoned bilingual traveler but for others it can invaluably enhance your vacation. {and, hey, when are they going to put up some neon signs outside them hard to find casas? }

[QUOTE=Colombia Jake;1132408]Once again the hotel you represent no longer offers girls on location! Your business is done! They know me and so do a lot of your customers who tell me there is no reason to return with no girls, and the price too high! No tour is free, you get them with over priced rooms. Once again lets keep doing this and see which business suffers more! I have a tour tomorrow! How many rooms are you going to lose tomorrow? Colombia Jake.[/QUOTE]Dude, you're on drugs.

I don't represent any hotel or any business, though I wish I did, especially if you're referring to the Mansion (CB1 y 2).
I was just there last month, and as always these days, they're full, and lots of girls, contrary to your belief.

By the way, I hope you do 20 tours tomorrow, I'm happy for you.

I'm done talking about these tours.
Have at it, and good luck to all.

Jake.

I certainly have no problem with you trying to make a buck by offering a service. That's capitalism and it's what makes the world go around. But why are you so antagonistic the CB1 and CB2?

[QUOTE=Ricker; 1132451]Dude, you're on drugs.

I'm done talking about these tours.

Have at it, and good luck to all. [/QUOTE]As usual, a mundane discussion about the value of Who*e house tours turned in to a pissing match. As usual, Ricker took the road that leads to peace, but I say Wait A MINUTE! I'm ready to do some unbiased research. I'll go on Jake's tour as well as Boyd's. Now that Ricker has branded Jake as being on drugs it ought to be a fair contest. None of the tour directors will likely be unstoned. I can speak for the researcher, but I won't.

Let's see which ones entrepreneurial efforts can lead this researcher to an experience that is worthy of reporting to the brethren here. It could be a new casa. It could be a new Piasa. It could be. . . .

As an aside, Jake your private message isn't working. Please don't tell us that you haven't ponied up the $20. 00 for Jackson. Man, you got to spend a little money to make money.

Only good energy!

[QUOTE=Ricker; 1132417]Now that's funny!

Are Kindergarteners running to el Centro now to the casas?

Someone has to show guys how to read street addresses because there's not a blinking light that says "casa"?

What to do when you get inside?

It's not obvious?

Do you thinks there were always Google maps and Colombia Jake around to save us?

How did we make our way before all this?

If guys want to pay Colombia Jake or whoever to show them how to read street signs and addresses and how to act once in a casa, that's just dandy and I'm thrilled for Jake, but I can't help it, I think it's funny and maybe sad at the same time.

There's one thing for sure, the gringos have definitely landed in Medellin. [/QUOTE]Jake and those that provide similar services provide a valuable service to gringos that don't speak spanish and those that are going to Medellin for the first time. You think it's easy to read the addresses? I challenge someone to look at the casa list and plot them out on google maps. Even then, do you really want to be walking up and down the street holding a map like a tourist? You think this is NYC? You'll likely get robbed in Centro!

The road to Medellin was paved by guys that SPOKE spanish! All the guys that followed usually had guides. My first time, I stayed at the Mansion and got a tour from Boyd. After 1 tour, I was able to go out on my own. The advice was invaluable. Even before that, I was fully prepared with addresses and maps. Could I have done it on my own? Probably. But it saved me a lot of time not getting lost.

As for what happens in a casa? They'll usually sit you down and ask if you want a drink. Then they'll ask if you want to see the ninas. Not knowing the process, you'll look like a dumb idiot when they are talking to you in spanish and you look back with a blank look.

Everybody was a newbie once and a little hand holding the first time never hurt anybody.

I have never been to the Mansion nor do I know where it is located. But every guy I have spoken to who has been there absolutely loves it and feels he rec'd tremendous value. There are still tons of women to be had there. Anyone who thinks otherwise is not knoledgable, and probably doesn't RTFF.

It doesn't cost the Mansion a nickel to give the casa tour. Boyd was going anyway. It's not like the Sunday Barbecue where food is purchased. That costs money. If Boyd stopped taking guys with him as he visited the casas the prices at the mansion would remain the same. It's about the comraderie and going together moreso than not having someone tell the text driver the address (whatta luxury!).

The tour guides here are really just wingmen. For sale. Yet wingmen are free. (see travel announcement board) you can meet them in many places. But no one wnats to pay for a wingman so it's a "casa tour".

I have no problem with anyone selling snow to the eskimos. The real fool here is the eskimo. Not the seller who has miraculously convinced the eskimo of his need for snow.

When I travel to Vegas I check out the hotel locations map, look at prices and amenities, read a few reviews, book the hotel. I tihnk everyone does that, no?

I don't need to pay a guide to meet me at the airport and hop in my cab to tell the driver to take me to my hotel on the strip. I don't need to pay a guide to show me the strip I'm on already it. I hear the MGM Grand has a great sports book, I see that it is not in walking distance of my hotel, and I hop in a cab. Do I need to hire a guide to hop in the cab with me and pay him to tell the driver "MGM Grand"?

If you can convince me that I need that, well then more power to you. Actually if you need that you probably shouldn't be travelling, sorry don't mean to be so harsh.

Do I really want to go to Rome and have another US tourist who has lived there for 6 months showing me around the Vatican in the middle of the tourist area? A waste of money.

I want hte bilingual local or the bilingiual from the US who's lived there much longer to take me off the beaten path. That is worth the money. But to pay another tourist (who has just moved there, can't hardly speak the language who does not even know the casa are open 7 days a week) to take me to a place where[B] Hundreds of tourists like me go each and every month without incedent [/B] (and some of these guys are not the sharpest knives in the drawer mind you) , well you already know how 95% of this board feels about that.

There are cab drivers and guides on the WT69 document. Those guys are worth it, not some starry eyed gringo.

I consider myself intelligent, street smart and not a fool. I read here every day since 2003 that tourists come here and go to the casas. Without incident. Hundreds of them.

If you are smart enough to find this board and read a little then you are above the services of one of these tours. And therein lies the catch 22.

[QUOTE=Legal Tender; 1132474]Let's see which ones entrepreneurial efforts can lead this researcher to an experience that is worthy of reporting to the brethren here. [B] It could be a new casa. It could be a new Piasa. It could be. . . . [/B]

As an aside, Jake your private message isn't working. Please don't tell us that you haven't ponied up the $20. 00 for Jackson. Man, you got to spend a little money to make money.

Only good energy![/QUOTE]A toursist wh doesn't even know the casa are open 7 days a week is going to deliver the "new casa", the "new paisa"? His first shill account was deleted and he ponied up for the 2nd one.

So entertaining to read the sandthrowing fight going on in MDE, while I shiver thru one of the coldest winters we have had in years. Life is so good down there, that is the only thing to worry about, not about fighting the.

30 below and snow we have had here.

On a personal note, although I do generally have a pretty good sense of direction anyway, I find it extremely easy.

To find the casas in el centro. The streets are numbered on an easy grid basis, except for a little bit around Parque.

Berrio, they are very straight, a good guide is the main drag Calle 46, I think, which is just a continution of

Ave Poblado. I have walked it on Sunday during the ciclovia. Worst case scenario is if you knock on the wrong door,

They will tell you next door, happened to me just once. During the day nobody has ever bothered me, and as I have reported in the past, I see virtually no gringos at all. (I note the confusing way this is being posted, I have tried to fix it in the past and cannot. If anybody knows why this is happening, please let me know)

[QUOTE=Hioctane; 1132493]Jake and those that provide similar services provide a valuable service to gringos that don't speak spanish and those that are going to Medellin for the first time. You think it's easy to read the addresses? I challenge someone to look at the casa list and plot them out on google maps. Even then, do you really want to be walking up and down the street holding a map like a tourist? You think this is NYC? You'll likely get robbed in Centro!

The road to Medellin was paved by guys that SPOKE spanish! All the guys that followed usually had guides. My first time, I stayed at the Mansion and got a tour from Boyd. After 1 tour, I was able to go out on my own. The advice was invaluable. Even before that, I was fully prepared with addresses and maps. Could I have done it on my own? Probably. But it saved me a lot of time not getting lost.

As for what happens in a casa? They'll usually sit you down and ask if you want a drink. Then they'll ask if you want to see the ninas. Not knowing the process, you'll look like a dumb idiot when they are talking to you in spanish and you look back with a blank look.

Everybody was a newbie once and a little hand holding the first time never hurt anybody. [/QUOTE]Ok Ok. You win!!

We need guides!!

Invaluable!!

I totally agree!!

I don't care!!

but, can someone pass me Jakes number please??
(We're still allowed to joke right??) :)

As Legal Tender puts it ... Good energy to all, and have fun!

[QUOTE=Legal Tender; 1132474]. I'll go on Jake's tour as well as Boyd's. Now that Ricker has branded Jake as being on drugs it ought to be a fair contest. None of the tour directors will likely be unstoned. I can speak for the researcher, but I won't.

Let's see which ones entrepreneurial efforts can lead this researcher to an experience that is worthy of reporting to the brethren here. It could be a new casa. It could be a new Piasa. It could be. . . . [/QUOTE]Great idea! Hahaha.

Report back pronto.

PS. I believe Jake is only on drugs when he alludes that I'm the owner of the Mansion (CB) , and that it's going out of business, no girls, etc. He's probably a super-duper fantastic guy in person though and I highly recommend his tours.

Maybe he's just mistaken, 'cause I am thinking of renting a room in the basement of New Life and calling it 'Ricker's place'.

Peace baby.

[QUOTE=Ricker; 1132620]Great idea! Hahaha.

Report back pronto.

PS. I believe Jake is only on drugs when he alludes that I'm the owner of the Mansion (CB) , and that it's going out of business, no girls, etc. He's probably a super-duper fantastic guy in person though and I highly recommend his tours.

Maybe he's just mistaken, 'cause I am thinking of renting a room in the basement of New Life and calling it 'Ricker's place'.

Peace baby. [/QUOTE]Oh that sounds wonderful! I would definitely need #1 a tour #2 A guide to take me there and tell me what to do once a women is presented in front of me and finally #3 A big neon sign that says "Rickers Place" along with that curving blinking red arrow. Thank you!